Diego Garcia rumors update: British
television (BBC) Jan 5, 2005 was panicked into
investigating the rumors in a ten-minute
segment, but gave reassuring noises and showed
alleged "before" and "after" satellite pictures.
It seems strange that there has been no
real-time eye-witness coverage from the
(British) island at all. [updated
tsunami links]

Farewell, femme fatale Mossad's
most famous hit woman diedSylvia Rafael, who was jailed in Norway for her
part in a botched 1973 assassination, died of
leukemia in her native South Africa over the
weekend. She was 67

Charles Taylor is
effusive about Prof Lipstadt in Salon:
"Shilling
for Hitler"
-- "Eminent historians defended Holocaust denier
David Irving in the name of free speech and
scholarship. Deborah Lipstadt's account of her
libel trial with Irving proves how colossally
wrong they were." -- Yes, the book's arrival in
London is eagerly awaited by
all. . .

More reviews by Lipstadt's friends of her
new book on the Trial (has she no enemies?):
Emory
University ("The British press was nasty,
seeing it as a battle of class -- an English
gentleman against an American Jewish woman
upstart") | Jewish
Journal of Los Angeles

Index on Censorship Don
Guttenplan asks, How Many Jews does it
take...?
-- and rather overlooks the fact that
(a) the International Jewish organisations
have spent millions trying to stop David
irving's books from being published, and to
destroy him personally and that (b) the English
have always fought back